510 pages : 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

I. Jesus and the apostles -- Away with the king (The Jesus movement) -- Wineskins: old and new (The gospel to the Gentiles) -- II. The age of Catholic Christianity (A.D. 70-312) -- Only worthless people (Catholic Christianity) -- If the Tiber floods (The persecution of Christians) -- Arguing about the event (The rise of orthodoxy) -- The rule of books (The formation of the Bible) -- The school for sinners (The power of bishops) -- Apostles to intellectuals (The Alexandrians)

III. The age of the Christian Roman Empire (A.D. 312-590) -- Laying her sceptre down (The conversion of the empire) -- Splitting important hairs (The doctrine of the Trinity) -- Emmanuel! (Christ in the creeds) -- Exiles from life (The beginnings of Monasticism) -- The sage of the ages (Augustine) -- Peter as Pontifex Maximus (The beginnings of the papacy) -- Somewhere between heaven and earth (Eastern Orthodoxy) -- Bending the necks of victors (Missions to the barbarians)

IV. The Christian Middle Ages (A.D. 590-1517) -- God's consul (Gregory the Great) -- The search for unity (Charlemagne and Christendom) -- Lifted in a mystic manner (The papacy and the crusader) -- The nectar of learning (Scholasticism) -- A song to Lady Poverty (The apostolic life style) -- Sleeping men and the law of necessity (The decline of the papacy) -- Judgment in the process of time (Wyclif and Hus)

V. The age of the Reformation (A.D. 1517-1648) -- A wild boar in the vineyard (Martin Luther and Protestantism) -- Radical discipleship (The Anabaptists) -- Thrust into the game (John Calvin) -- The curse upon the crown (The Church of England) -- "Another man" at Manresa (The Catholic Reformation) -- Opening the rock (America and Asia) -- The rule of the saints (Puritanism) -- Unwilling to die for an old idea (Denominations)

VI. The age of reason and revival (A.D. 1648-1789) -- Aiming at the foundations (The cult of reason) -- The heart and its reasons (Pascal and the Pietists) -- A brand from the burning (Wesley and Methodism) -- A new order of the ages (The Great Awakening) -- VII. The age of progress (A.D. 1789-1914) -- The restoration of fortresses (Catholicism in the age of progress) -- A new social frontier (Nineteenth century England) -- To earth's remotest people (Protestant missions) -- The destiny of a nation (A Christian America) -- A bridge for intelligent moderns (Protestant liberalism) -- Nothing to lose but chains (The social crisis)

VIII. The age of ideologies (A.D. 1914-1980) -- Graffiti on a wall of shame (Twentieth-century ideologies) -- Rootless immigrants in a sick society (American evangelicals) -- New creeds for breakfast (The ecumenical movement) -- The medicine of mercy (Roman Catholicism: Vatican II) -- Time for a reverse flow (Christianity in the Third World)

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